1962 Berlin Grand Prix

Route sketch of the AVUS

The Berlin Grand Prix , also known as the International AvD Avus Race (Grand Prize of Berlin), Avus , was a GT race that was held on May 13, 1962 on the Berlin Avus . At the same time, the race was the sixth round of this year's sports car world championship .

The race

The Berlin Grand Prix was one of the GT races that took place in the 1962 sports car world championship . With the exception of a GSM Delta, only Abarth and BMW vehicles competed in this race . The Swiss Robert Jenny won ahead of his brand colleagues Herbert Demetz and Gérard Langlois van Ophem .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	GT 1.0	40	Abarth	Robert Jenny	Fiat-Abarth 1000	40
2	GT 1.0	41	Abarth	Herbert Demetz	Fiat-Abarth 1000	40
3	GT 1.0	37	Equipe Nationale Belge	Gérard Langlois van Ophem	Fiat-Abarth 1000	37
4th	GT 1.0	33	Abarth	Hans-Georg Plaut	Fiat-Abarth 1000	36
5	GT 1.0	44	Keith Holland	Keith Holland	GSM Delta	36
6th	GT 700	55	Abarth	Teodoro Zeccoli	Fiat-Abarth 700	35
7th	GT 1.0	39	Equipe Nationale Belge	Yves Deprez	Fiat-Abarth 1000	34
8th	GT 700	51	Nürburgring racing community	Walter Schneider	BMW 700	34
9	GT 1.0	36	Abarth	Claude Bobrowski	Fiat-Abarth 1000	33
10	GT 700	57	Wolfgang Seidel	Wolfgang Seidel	Fiat-Abarth 700	33
11	GT 1.0	38	Equipe Nationale Belge	Claude Dubois	Fiat-Abarth 1000	32
12	GT 1.0	30th	Abarth	Hans Herrmann	Fiat-Abarth 1000	32
13	GT 700	46	Nürburgring racing community	Hubert Hahne	BMW 700	32
14th	GT 700	48	Nürburgring racing community	Heinz Schreiber	BMW 700	32
15th	GT 700	45	Equipe Nationale Belge	Carl Smet	BMW 700	30th
16	GT 700	49	Nürburgring racing community	Jürgen Zink	BMW 700	30th
17th	GT 700	47	Nürburgring racing community	Wolfgang Levy	BMW 700	30th
18th	GT 700	52	Nürburgring racing community	Dieter Jeub	BMW 700	29
Failed
19th	GT 1.0	31	Abarth	Eberhard Mahle	Fiat-Abarth 1000	15th
20th	GT 1.0	36	Abarth	Oddone Sigala	Fiat-Abarth 1000	15th
21st	GT 1.0	52	Abarth	Manfred Hönig	Fiat-Abarth 1000
22nd	GT 1.0	34	Abarth	Mauro Bianchi	Fiat-Abarth 1000
23	GT 700	50	Nürburgring racing community	Helfried Vogel	BMW 700
24	GT 700	52	Abarth	Giovanni Pessina	Fiat-Abarth 700

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
GT 1.0	Robert Jenny	Fiat-Abarth 1000	Overall victory
GT 700	Teodoro Zeccoli	Fiat-Abarth 700	Rank 6

Racing data

• Registered: 24
• Started: 24
• Valued: 18
• Race classes: 2
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: rain
• Route length: 8.300 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 1: 52: 23.800 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 40
• Total distance of the winning team: 332,000 km
• Winner's average: 177.229 km / h
• Pole position: Eberhard Mahle - Fiat-Abarth 1000 (# 31) - 2: 44.800 = 181.311 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Robert Jenny - Fiat-Abarth 1000 (# 31) - 2: 40.100 = 186.633 km / h
• Racing series: Round 6 of the 1962 World Sports Car Championship

Web links

• Race results

Predecessor race Targa Florio 1962

Sports car world championship

Successor race 1000 km race on the Nürburgring 1962